Final work presented in Economics and Enviroment course
Forest engineering student
It is an ecosystem characterized by:
From ~9 million of hectares of original tropical dry forest extension, today only remain around of 8%. The livestock grazing and agriculture expansion are the main drivers of deforestation.
The ecosystem services are the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that directly or indirectly contribute to human wellbeing (Costanza et al., 2017).
Determine the Colombian towns with potential to implement a PES scheme. The town potential was established through the opportunity cost1 of the main farming activities in regions where the tropical dry forest is present.